January 6, 2009 · 5:32 AM

16 responses to “Lovett’s Pecans, Sparks”

Kate kendrick

December 5, 2015 at 3:43 PM

I worked there probably in 1952. Love it and the owners.

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- Eston
  
  December 17, 2015 at 12:15 AM
  
  Barney Lovett was my grandfather and a true gem.
  
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  - Brian Brown
    
    January 26, 2016 at 6:54 PM
    
    Eston, I hope to get better photos down there sometime. I’d love to hear more about your grandfather.
Brannon Jahnke

February 18, 2014 at 5:29 PM

Evelyn Lovett Childers passed away on February 7th, 2014 at 92 years old. She was the owner of Lovett’s Pecans and the Southland Restaurant in Adel, GA. So many great memories of visiting her in Sparks growing up. She was a great lady that taught me the value of hard work. She was the embodiment of the American Dream.

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Paul

December 30, 2013 at 4:48 PM

Oh yes Lovett’s Pecans, I know of that place because my mom and other members of my family told me all about it back in the day when Sparks was a bustling college town, they said back then Sparks was bigger than Adel. I myself stayed with my grand parents on corner of Virginia Ave and 41. My grandfather Homer Dixon owned Dixon’s grocery for 53 years right there on the main street in Sparks. I have great memories of Sparks and of Adel county.

Best Regards-
Paul

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judy

October 25, 2012 at 8:47 PM

did the Lovett’s sell honey???I think I remember me and granddaddy Rountree going there and buying clover honey…my granddaddy Tobe ate clover honey every meal…they lived on Colquitt Street in Sparks…we lived across I-75 on the right side of the road…I understand there might be a winery there now…I-75 went through the middle of Grandaddy’s farm…there was a large pecan orchard and a dairy barn and mullberry trees there before the hiway came through…sorry…I tend to ramble…

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Duffy Odum

May 16, 2011 at 9:47 AM

Greetings from Sparks! Thanks for this page. I go by there everyday.

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- Duffy Odum
  
  May 16, 2011 at 9:47 AM
  
  Well, where it used to be I mean.
  
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- drtrd
  
  May 16, 2011 at 10:16 AM
  
  Thank you, Duffy! I checked out your pages. Couldn’t get the one of you as the City Clerk of Sparta on In the Heat of the Night to work, though. I love that show. Wilbur Fitzgerald’s sister Juliette is a friend of mine!
  
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Brannon Jahnke

October 22, 2010 at 12:01 AM

Thanks for the nice comments Julie. This is my grandmother’s store. I used to work the cash register when I would visit mostly in the 80’s so I may have met you before. My mother Carolyn Lovett grew up in the house that is still on the property. Lots of great memories visiting Sparks. The store closed back around 2002, I think and my grandmother Evelyn Lovett is in a nursing home in Adel. She is 89 now.

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- Vickie Mattson
  
  May 4, 2013 at 10:42 AM
  
  Brannon, I knew your Mom and Grandmother when I was a little girl ! I’m looking for my cousin Judy Lovett. She was Ethel and Brown Lovetts daughter ..
  
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  - Eston
    
    December 31, 2014 at 9:36 PM
    
    Hi Vickie, Judy Lovett was my Mother (Jerri)’s cousin. I can ask for you.
  - Vickie Mattson
    
    January 1, 2015 at 4:32 PM
    
    Thank you so much! I remember you’re Mom! I’ve been looking for Judy for so long! Uncle Brown was my absolute favorite Uncle. ! So many wonderful memories.!!!
julie skinner

August 19, 2010 at 10:39 PM

A friend fowarded your site to me. The photo of Lovett’s Pecans brought back memories for me. My parents used to take my brother and I to the store to sell the pecans that we had picked up from our yard. . . during the 80’s. I do not know what year it closed. My grandmother’s maiden name was Lovett and the owners were relatives.
Thank you.

Julie

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- drtrd
  
  August 24, 2010 at 11:28 PM
  
  Thanks for sharing your memories, Julie!
  
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- Eston Griffin
  
  November 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM
  
  Small World Julie! My grandmother owned this store and I used to pick pecans and play in the yard as well.
  
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